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> Unix is dumb I don't know. Now async I/O is all the rage and that is the same idea.
by 1718627440 11mo ago
> Unix is dumb
I don't know. Now async I/O is all the rage and that is the same idea.
- marcosdumay 11mo agoThe syscall is literally called "sync", though.
- 1718627440 11mo agoI think it is a way of the OS to shoehorn async into a synchronously written application.
- wmf 11mo agoIf they had a sync() system call and a wait_for_sync_to_finish() system call then you'd be right. But they didn't have those.
- 1718627440 11mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268127 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46268127 (To quote yourself :-) )